Thanks for the heads up joblack. I'm really looking forward to the device. My experiences with the M92 were mostly satisfactory, so I will not hesitate to buy the M96 when it comes out.

I put high hopes in Android. Even today I'm still frustrated with how the M92 went to waste (althought it's still a fine device) with such a poor software. It's a shame that even the most basic features one could expect were missing. This and a note-taking application which transliterated to pretty much "just so you can't claim we hadn't included a note-taking application"*. Great hardware, so much potential gone to waste because of poor software choices.

Hope it will all be better with Android and the option to write your own apps (just in case).

* But "Gomoku"... If everything else fails or is missing, we still have "Gomoku"...

The HD screen is just too expensive, so we have to stick to current normal screen but with better processor. We will ship the first batch of M96 this Month (March). The M95 is removed from our product list as we cannot see any reason for end user to choose low end 9.7 product.

Unfortunately, the 13.3 will be delayed as we need to invest quite lot of money in 13.3 project. The marketing is not good enough. We get some sales data of SONY PRS T1 from certain channel. And another important reason is that we should finish i86 at first. Hopefully, we should be able to finish development on April. We will continue the 13.3 once we finished i86.

Unfortunately, the 13.3 will be delayed as we need to invest quite lot of money in 13.3 project. The marketing is not good enough. We get some sales data of SONY PRS T1 from certain channel.

Heh, I wonder how revealing the Sony sales really are, given how specialized their trade is and how *ahem* unusual their software stack (remember, only PDF).

13.3" is certainly a very narrow niche, but I think if you can offer a fair deal, it's about as wide as that for 9.7". If one goes for large, one goes for really large. That said, I predict in the long run all current 9.7" users qualify as possible 13.3" customers.

If you can pull this off at an affordable rate and less prototype'ish than the only current two other competitors, Onyx will likely make a head-start on tapping segments which were beyond the reach of a 9.7". I can tell for sure that 13.3" is just over the threshold of the professional sector: Engineering, science, construction, etc.

9.7" is too small for the folks which need technical stuff on a regular basis (as a physicist myself, I use the 9.7" for books, but those don't contain drawings to the extent, say, an applied researcher needs daily).

With a bit more work on Onyx' relations, you might even find funding by the educational sector and eventually make you a profitable deal for sales. At least here in Europe, where universities are often state-run, they spend millions of EUR on the silliest investments. If you do it right, it should be a piece of cake to have them invest in something as useful as a reasonably sized e-reader.

I guess ManDay may be right. 10" is too small to be comfortable for academic reading even for people with good eyesight. Not speaking of old proffesors....

13'' is just right. But beside the size also the speed matters. It is true that it takes time to read A4 page in tiny print. But it is handy to be able to flip pages fast to allow reader quick reference. Slow flipping might be a problém for certain users.